ACE NITETIME & JACK STATIC
THE BUTTON

SUNDAY COMIC SCRIPT — ISSUE-007

FORMAT
One landscape Sunday page with seven panels. The first six create a slow,
simple comedic build inside the garage. The seventh is a huge wide exterior
payoff occupying the full bottom portion of the page. Clear reading order.

CONTINUITY
Match Issues 1-6. Ace: lean, dark hair, rust-red rolled-sleeve shirt, dark
vest, jeans, silver radio headphones. Jack: stockier, sandy hair, short
mustache, square glasses, olive work jacket, cream shirt, jeans, tool belt.
The garage remains warm, cluttered, old, and full of unexplained equipment.

PANEL 1 — DISCOVERY
Visual: Ace pulls a dusty tarp from an enormous forgotten machine in the back
of the garage. Its only obvious control is a huge glossy red button beneath a
stamped metal label: DO NOT PRESS. Jack looks up from a workbench.
Dialogue:
ACE: Jack, do you know what this does?

PANEL 2 — NOPE
Visual: Tight shot of Jack looking at the machine with perfect calm. The red
button glows slightly at the edge of frame.
Dialogue:
JACK: Nope.

PANEL 3 — THE QUESTION
Visual: Ace circles the machine, looking for clues. There are cables leading
into the wall, old vacuum tubes, a large dormant gauge, and no useful labels
besides DO NOT PRESS.
Dialogue:
ACE: Then why is it here?

PANEL 4 — TWELVE YEARS
Visual: Jack joins Ace beside the button, hands in pockets. A dusty calendar
from twelve years earlier hangs behind the machine.
Dialogue:
JACK: Been wondering that for twelve years.

PANEL 5 — THE STARE
Visual: Silent symmetrical panel. Ace and Jack stand on either side of the
button, staring at it. The button sits dead center. A wall clock ticks. No
dialogue.
Sound effect:
TICK

PANEL 6 — SIMULTANEOUSLY
Visual: Both men suddenly reach for the red button at exactly the same time,
each using one index finger. Their expressions show shared guilty resolve.
The two fingers press the button together.
Sound effect:
K-THUNK

PANEL 7 — THE PAYOFF
Visual: Enormous wide exterior night view of rural Wisconsin and Lake
Koshkonong. The tiny garage sits near the lakeshore. A gigantic brilliant
red-gold beam erupts from its roof, punches through the clouds, and shoots
deep into a star-filled sky. Barns, trees, water, radio towers, and distant
roads are lit by the impossible beam. A small inset cutaway or two tiny speech
balloons at the garage window let us hear Ace and Jack inside beside the now
fully awake machine.
Dialogue:
ACE: What did we just do?
JACK: Well, we know what the button does now.

LETTERING
Prioritize exact wording and short balloons. Essential labels: THE BUTTON,
DO NOT PRESS. Sound effects: TICK and K-THUNK. No nonsense machine text.

TONE
Extremely simple Sunday-comic timing. The machine is mysterious but not evil.
The final beam is spectacular, beautiful, funny, and unresolved—not a disaster
or an attack. Do not show damage or frightened crowds.